The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

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The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readers
Writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.
Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You’ll learn:
• emotional modes of writing
• beyond showing versus telling
• your story’s emotional world
• moral stakes
• connecting the inner and outer journeys
• plot as emotional opportunities
• invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language
• cascading change
• story as emotional mirror
• positive spirit and magnanimous writing
• the hidden current that makes stories move
Readers can simply read a novel…or they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1440348375
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Writer’s Digest Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 30, 2016
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781440348372
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440348372
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.58 x 8.4 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #19,564 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #8 in Creative Writing Composition #17 in Authorship Reference #26 in Fiction Writing Reference (Books)
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